Monthly Song Contests

[john]

I was talking to Donna Marilyn about things we could do on the forums. We used to run songwriting contests (just for fun) on a regular basis, but haven't for some time. Donna had some excellent suggestions for a monthly contest and I thought I would run the idea by our members:

Would you be interested in a monthly contest? Just answer in the poll above, and if you have suggestions please also hit reply

The idea is as follows:

• We have a monthly, for fun, contest.
  
• The exact contest will vary each month.
  

Example contests would be:

• A themed contest every 6 months
  
• An acoustic contest
  
• A separate lyrics and instrumental contest
  
• A collaboration contest
  
• A full band arrangement contest (with as many writers as are needed)
  
• A style or genre contest
  
• An "A cappella" contest
  
• A Christmas song contest
  

Hopefully you get the idea!

Once a year we could vote for an overall winner from the previous 11 monthly contests, the winner and runners up receiving a small prize.

So please vote... interested or not?

Cheers

John

Please share this, on our forums and elsewhere if you like. It would be good to gather opinions from a lot of people!

[Carrieptn]

Love the idea! I hope there are a lot of participants

[Dyoung54]

I would love a monthly contest. (By the way, how do I post lyrics on this site?)

[john]

I would love a monthly contest. (By the way, how do I post lyrics on this site?)

I am guessing you mean for critique, you can post a lyric, one per topic here: http://forums.songstuff.com/forum/13-lyrics-critique/

[Mahesh]

Sounds like a great idea to me

[john]

Did you vote? lol

[Mahesh]

Now I did

[john]

lmao

[nickamandote]

good idea, sure

[Gazebo]

Would love to take part!

[LayneGreene]

I'd love to see the opinions of people who vote no

[Gazebo]

I am a regular entrant in a monthly challenge on the Two Track Music Forum. Would it be a good idea to join forces to have a bigger competition?

Link below to the challenge that has just closed:

http://www.twotrackmusic.com/forums/index.php?topic=4793.0

Or maybe we invite TTM join in on this one!!!

[Brayoski]

Definately could love to take part in the contests where i can.

[M Theory]

Do It!!

[MissMartha]

yes please!!

[john]

Okay, it seems that we have enough interest in making this happen. If any of you would like to help run these competitions, just drop me a PM If not, I'll set it up myself or perhaps press gang someone

I'll get started with drawing up some rules

Please make my effort worthwhile by taking an active part in the competitions and encouraging others to take part

[john]

here are draft rules for the lyrics and song contests:

If you have suggestions for changes please post them in this thread

[GocartMoz]

Love the idea

[john]

As the results are pretty obvious, we have launched two contests for this month:

LYRICS CONTEST <- for lyrics only

SONG CONTEST <- for recordings

Please take part.

[kumarabhi]

I love to join this contest.